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A physician who specializes in specific health care problems—for example, anesthesiologists, cardiologists, and oncologists.
What is a Specialist?
Which profession holds salaried positions and works in community pharmacies that are independently owned or are part of a national drugstore, supermarket, or department store chain?
What's a Pharmacist?
Which Medical Service Era was when health care was delivered in a free market?
What is a Pre-Industrial Era?
A federal program, aimed to provide public welfare benefits.
What is Medicaid?
What functioned as a test case for the concept of publicly funded health insurance?
What is Worker's Compensation?
An unspecialized institution that existed during the 18th and mid-19th centuries that mainly served general welfare functions, essentially providing shelter to the homeless, the insane, the elderly, orphans, and the sick who had no family to care for them.
What's an Almshouse or Poorhouse?
A professional who is educated and trained in a specialized field of health care and has responsibility for the delivery of services associated with medical care.
What is an Allied Health Professional?
Which era was the Creation of Medicare and Medicaid developed in?
What is the Post-Industrial Era?
Which insurance covers all elderly persons, nonelderly disabled persons on Social Security, and nonelderly persons with end-stage renal disease?
What is Medicare?
What was required to disperse a person's financial risk among a wide number of others?
What is Private Health Insurance?
An institution that existed in preindustrial America to quarantine people with contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox, or typhoid.
What is a Pesthouse?
Face financial obstacles to indirect reimbursement, which is often paid to the doctors they work with.
What are Nonphysician Practitioners?
What led to a greater reliance on the trained expertise of paid professionals since this tendency alienated individuals from the care provided by their families?
What is Urbanization?
What contributed to the demise of bills related to national health insurance and later launched a costly lobbying effort linking national health insurance to communism?
What is AMA?
The U.S. graduate schools of public health that are accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health help train health services administrators in what programs?
What are MHA/MHSA and MPH programs?
Use of telecommunications technology that enables physicians to conduct two-way, interactive video consultations or transmit digital images, such as X-rays and magnetic resonance imaging results, to other sites.
What is Telemedicine?
Clinical professionals, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, practice in many areas similar to those in which physicians practice but who do not have an MD or a DO degree.
What is a Nonphysician Practitioner?
What was mostly learned through individualized training with a working doctor rather than through academic study?
What is Medical Training?
Which type of insurance launched an effort to keep inflation under control during the war and the US Congress enacted wage freezes. In response, many firms began providing health insurance to their staff in order to make up for the loss of salary increases.
What is Employment-Based Insurance?
What had stipulated that companies providing health insurance to their workers had to provide contraceptives to women, even ones that may lead to early abortions?
What is Obama-era Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)?
A medical philosophy based on the holistic approach to treatment that also emphasizes correction of the position of the joints or tissues and diet and environment as factors that might destroy natural resistance.
What is Osteopathic Medicine?
Emphasize the practice of preventative medicine by emphasizing patient lifestyle factors including nutrition and environment as potential influences on natural resistance. They approach patient treatment holistically.
What are DOs?
What utilized their considerable purchasing power to negotiate lower rates for healthcare services and the power conferred by their consolidation to put in place different kinds of regulations to lower the growing cost of healthcare?
What are Managed Care Organizations (MCOs)?
What refers to significant changes in public policy, the main goal of which is to provide access to health insurance for the uninsured?
What is Health Care Reform?
Created funding programs for primary care, direct care, oral health professionals, geriatric education centers, mental health, cultural competency, nursing, nurse practitioners, public health, and underrepresented minorities.
What is Affordable Care Act?